Metro

Bhubaneswar/ Bolangir: The Income Tax department winded up its six-day search operation Tuesday and left the country-liquor manufacturing unit in Odisha's Bolangir district after recovering more than Rs350 crore in unaccounted cash and about 3 kilograms of gold, officials said. As the raids were completed,...

Bhubaneswar: Former Governor of Odisha Ganeshi Lal had issued 319 grants from his discretionary funds totalling more than Rs 6 crore to Haryana-based recipients between FY 2018-19 and FY 2023-24, according to an RTI response received from the Governor's office. Notably, Lal- who hails from...

Bhubaneswar: High-profile honey trap case prime accused Archana Nag Tuesday walked out of Jharpara prison here after remaining behind the bars for around 14 months. Immediately after her release, she went to a law college to appear for her law examination, for which she had...

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha will dispatch Plus-II practical examination materials from the council’s head office to all the examination centres from December 26 onwards, an official letter informed. The materials are expected to reach all centres by December 31, the...

Bhubaneswar: Cold weather conditions prevailed in several tribal-dominated districts of Odisha as the mercury plummeted below the 10 degrees Celsius mark Tuesday. G Udayagiri in Kandhamal district recorded the lowest temperature in the state at 7.2 degrees Celsius, the Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar said. Keonjhar and...

Bhubaneswar: A government-backed women's self-help group programme in Odisha sustained food security during Covid-19 lockdown, finds a study. In March of 2020, India's government announced a strict lockdown with just four hours notice, including a ban on the informal and traditional food outlets that 80...

Bhubaneswar: With the income-tax department seizing over Rs 350-crore unaccounted cash during a series of raids on distilleries, three major political parties in Odisha have virtually entered into a slugfest, accusing each other of patronising illegality in the country-liquor trade in the state. While the...

Bhubaneswar: Unidentified miscreants looted Rs10.59 lakhs from a SBI ATM in the Old Town area of Bhubaneswar late Sunday night. Based on a complaint lodged by the bank officials, the commissionerate police registered a case and launched an investigation into the incident. Deputy Commissioner of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday inaugurated India’s largest state-of-the-art Sports Science Centre at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. It is being established in partnership with Abhinav Bindra, India’s first individual Olympic gold medalist. According to a source, this facility, designed to cater to athletes across...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: With the "highest-ever" cash seizure of Rs 351 crore by income tax sleuths during raids against a distillery company owned by a Congress MP's family, the role of hawala operators and shell companies that were allegedly used to channel the "illicit" funds has...